41. H L Mencken The Holder Of Free Speech and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half. –HL Mencken (18801956), Breathing Space , The Baltimore Evening Sun , 1924 Aug 4. Reprinted in http://www.cartn.com/mencken.htm

More Quotes to make you look smart H.L. Mencken: Two of his Theories Henry Louis Mencken was born on September 12, 1880. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. His father owned a Cigar factory. H.L seemed destined to follow in his fathers footsteps. After studying at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute he worked for his father in the cigar Factory until 1899. This would not be Mencken's lasting contribution to society. In 1899 he began writng for several local, Boston area, newspapers. Two of the more prestigious papers that he worked for were the Baltimore Herald Tribune and Baltimore Sun . He worked as a newspaper writer for most of the 1910's. His career as a newspaper man quickly launched him into the literary world as both a freelance writer and an editor of his own journal, The American Mercury. The scope of Mencken's writings was extremely broad. He satirized the American south after the Scopes Monkey trial, criticized American democracy, joked about Prohibition, challenged the place of women in society, and advocated free speech. He was known throughout his life as an general critic and commentator on American society. Mencken's appeal was in his the shock value of his opinions. Though he was a serious writer, he spoke with a true voice of sarcasm. This made him very difficult to interpret. Mencken wrote very much for himself, rather than for the public. His political ideas often contradicted one another. Above all, Mencken was a sort of entertainer of his generation. Especially during the explosive decade that was the roaring twenties, his outlandish ideas and extreme political views posited an intellectual challenge to the stringent "Victorian" way of life that governed the lives of so many Americans

42. American Experience | Monkey Trial | People & Events People Events Henry Louis Mencken (18801956) On a hot day in July 1925,HL Mencken arrived in Dayton, Tennessee, to report on the Scopes trial. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_mencken.html

On a hot day in July 1925, H. L. Mencken arrived in Dayton, Tennessee , to report on the Scopes trial. "The town, I confess, greatly surprised me," he wrote that night. "I expected to find a squalid Southern village, with darkies snoozing on the horse blocks, pigs rooting under the houses and the inhabitants full of hookworm and malaria. What I found was a country town of charm and even beauty." As editor of the American Mercury and reporter for The Baltimore Sun , Mencken was the voice of the Jazz Age . He had often described the South as an intellectual desert and though his first reaction to Dayton was one of pleasant surprise, later he called the town a "universal joke." He complained, "there is no gambling. There is no place to dance. The relatively wicked, when they would indulge themselves, go to Robinson's drug store and debate theology." H. L. Mencken was responsible for suggesting to Clarence Darrow that he volunteer his services in the defense of John Scopes . Mencken hoped to witness a showdown between Darrow and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan . He wanted a front-row seat at an epic battle over science and religion . According to historian Kevin Tierney, "Mencken and Darrow really wanted in some sense to re-fight the

43. H.L. Mencken HL Mencken. Henry Lewis Mencken (18801956) was an extremely successfulAmerican journalist and prolific writer of books. Known for http://www.splashs.org/hom/mencken.htm

In this site Home Essays and Articles Humanist of the Month ... Site Map H.L. Mencken Henry Lewis Mencken (1880-1956) was an extremely successful American journalist and prolific writer of books. Known for his sardonic wit, he once published a book consisting entirely of denunciations of him. His autobiography is a must for viewing Americana. His series under the head "The Free Lance," a title typical of his satiric barbs, attacked vice crusaders, politicians and "other such frauds." He believed deeply in free speech and frequently dealt with the conflict between scientific skepticism and religious belief. "Mencken scorned middle class conformity and pretensions. His appeal stemmed from his audacity: In a time when politicians lavished fulsome praise on America, skeptical readers found it refreshing for Mencken to call Americans .the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages." Quotes: "Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of truth." - Autobiographical Notes, 1925

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AMICUS No. 8615604 Monograph COPIES: NL Stacks - PS3525 E43 Z463 1989 NAME(S): * Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 TITLE(S): The diary of H.L. Mencken / edited by Charles A. Fecher EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHER: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989. DESCRIPTION: xxx, 476 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. NUMBERS: ISBN: 039456877X : SUBJECTS: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956Diaries Authors, American20th centuryDiaries

45. Quotations From H. L. Mencken HL Mencken (18801956) American author. Find HL Mencken items at the QuotegeekStore. Quotegeek Literature and Personalities Mencken HL. Search Now http://www.quotegeek.com/Literature/Mencken_HL/

Quotations from H. L. Mencken Choose a Location Home Literature and Personalities Movies and Television Themes New Quotations Forums Store Add a Quotation Search Find H. L. Mencken items at the Quote Geek Store Add a quotation Search A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married. ( Rating: Review It The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the devil. ( Rating: 9.00 Review It Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ( Rating: Review It No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ( Rating: 10.00 Review It We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart. ( Rating: Review It No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. ( Rating: Review It A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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Freedom Bookstore : H. L. Mencken Freedom Party's online bookstore H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was a famous American journalist, critic, and editor known for his irreverent social criticism and lively invective. His robust, often savagely witty style and his tremendous productivity as a writer brought him distinction in almost every literary form he attempted. From about 1910 to 1940, he was the most important literary figure in the United States. He began his journalism career at the age of 18 as a reporter with the Baltimore Morning Herald. By the age of 25, he had risen to editor in chief. After the paper closed in 1906, Mencken joined the Baltimore Sun as Sunday editor. He worked for the Sun for the rest of his career, except for leaves of absence during the two world wars. Mencken became famous for his newspaper columns, in which he enjoyed attacking American taste and culture, ridiculing a wide range of popular beliefs. From 1908 to 1923, Mencken wrote about 2,000 book reviews for the magazine Smart Set

47. H.L. Mencken On American Literature - Book Review From Wilson Quarterly Nowadays most people think of HL Mencken (18801956) as thescourge of the middle-class philistines he dubbed the booboisie,” but in http://www.ohiou.edu/oupress/menckenreview.htm

H. L. Mencken on American Literature Book Page From The Atlantic Monthly T Huckleberry Finn The Age of Innocence My Antonia The Great Gatsby A Book of Prefaces and in his six-volume series, Prejudices . And the 1968 collection Smart Set Criticism Main Street From Wilson Quarterly: Nowadays most people think of H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) as the scourge of the middle-class philistines he dubbed the "booboisie,” but in his own day he was at least as well known as a literary critic. Over the noisy course of a 15-year run as book reviewer for The Smart Set , the magazine he coedited with George Jean Nathan, Mencken reviewed, by his own reckoning, some 2,000 novels, most of them, also by his own reckoning, the work of "100 percent dunderheads." All these achievements and more can be sampled in H. L. Mencken on American Literature , the first new anthology of Mencken's literary criticism published in decades. Joshi, the editor, is a Mencken buff who knows his way around his hero's mon-strous output (Mencken plausibly claimed to have published well in excess of five million words), and though his selection overlaps rather more than it should with William H. Nolte's indispensable H. L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism (1968), still in print, it also includes a number of previously uncollected pieces, not a few of which are both significant and readable.

48. Henry Louis Mencken Last Words (1926) HL Mencken 18801956. I have alluded somewhat vaguelyto the merits of democracy. One of them is quite obvious it http://www.aldenchronicles.com/mencken.html

Last Words H. L. Mencken MENCKEN ON POLITICS, POLITICIANS, DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND VOTERS.... mostly he had little use for these entities Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ruleand both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. The theory behind representative government is that superior menor at all events, men not inferior to the average in ability and integrityare chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honesty. There is little support for that theory in the known facts... The typical lawmaker of today is a man devoid of principlea mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology, or cannibalism.

49. Inherit The Wind Online Database). H. L. Mencken. HL Mencken (18801956)- a short biographywritten by the faculty of UMKC Law. Henry Louis Mencken http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/wind.html

Inherit the Wind William Jennings Bryan Clarence Darrow H. L. Mencken Small Southern Towns ... Silly Laws William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan - brief bio in context of the trial by UMKC Law. A Battle of Wills - an interactive reference offering commentary on Bryan and Darrow. William Jennings Bryan - brief biography with links to related topics William Jennings Bryan - the man and his career from HistoryLink.com. Be sure to check out the project books and Student Resource Center (Online Database). Clarence Darrow Who is Clarence Darrow? - overview of the man and his legacies by Prof. Douglas Linder. A Battle of Wills - an interactive reference offering commentary on Bryan and Darrow. Clarence Darrow Links - selection of writings/speeches by or about Darrow. Clarence Darrow - miscellaneous material and correspondence from the FBI's files under the Freedom of Information Act. Be sure to check out the project books and Student Resource Center (Online Database). H. L. Mencken H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) - a short biography written by the faculty of UMKC Law. Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) - biographical information with links to further sites at the bottom.

50. Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. Mencken, HL (Henry Louis), 18801956.Titles. In Defense Of Women. To the main listings page. Main Project http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/mencken__h._l.__henry_lou.html

Project Gutenberg Author record Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 Titles In Defense Of Women To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

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NEW: H.L. Mencken Quote of the Day Dennis Bretz ( menckenlist@EXCITE.COM Thu, 13 May 1999 19:00:56 PDT Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Armando Trevino: "CHANGE: FBCN-FREE Business Classifieds Newsletter" Previous message: Kenneth J. Kovler: "NEW: CARFIX_ONLINE - Discussion on any Car repair issue" The Mencken Quote of the Day list was formed so that subscribers could receive a different H.L. Mencken quote each weekday. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was an American author whose words have continually fascinate and anger readers. Mencken's thoughts are even more interesting in this period of political correctness. For instance, here's a sample H.L. Mencken quote: "The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace." *** To subscribe, visit this web site: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Mencken Get your free, private email at http://mail.excite.com/ http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/caservices/new-list/ Next message: Armando Trevino: "CHANGE: FBCN-FREE Business Classifieds Newsletter" Previous message: Kenneth J. Kovler: "NEW: CARFIX_ONLINE - Discussion on any Car repair issue"

52. Mencken (H. L.) Translate this page Mencken Henry Louis (1880-1956). Ses Mémoires (The Days of HL Mencken, 3 vol., 1940-1943)évoquent avec nostalgie le Baltimore de la fin du XIXe siècle et http://www.proverbes-citations.com/mencken.htm

Mencken Henry Louis (1880-1956). L'écrivain germano-américain Henry Louis Mencken vécut toute son existence à Baltimore, où il se tailla rapidement une réputation d'humoriste iconoclaste grâce à ses articles des Sunpapers entre 1906 et 1948. Il dirigea également deux mensuels : The Smart Set (1914-1923, avec George Jean Nathan) et The American Mercury Prejudices (1919-1927) rassemblent ses essais de journaliste et proposent à une Amérique encore provinciale des modèles étrangers, en même temps qu'ils l'encouragent à s'explorer elle-même et à critiquer sa propre insuffisance culturelle. Les cibles favorites de Mencken sont ce qu'il nomme l' Americano , ou Boobus Americanus , autrement dit le citoyen crédule, patriote, sectaire, prétentieux, gauche et borné ; et encore le clergé hypocrite, le nivellement démocratique, la médiocrité provinciale. D'une caricature féroce des États-Unis, l'écrivain excepte une prétendue "minorité civilisée", tolérante et cultivée. Par germanophilie et anglophobie, il s'est élevé contre Woodrow Wilson et F.D. Roosevelt et a été le champion véhément du conservatisme isolationniste. Son dynamisme, sa personnalité tranchée, la verve de son style lui ont assuré un public important entre 1920 et 1930, décennie à laquelle on l'associe souvent. Ses Mémoires ( The Days of H.L. Mencken

53. Positive Atheism's Big List Of H. L. Mencken Quotations Mencken (18801956) American editor and critic The urge to save humanity is almostalways only a false-face for the urge to rule it. HL Mencken, quoted in http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/mencken.htm

Positive Atheism 's Big List of H. L. Mencken Quotations No-Frames Quotes Index Load This File With Frames Index Home to Positive Atheism Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American editor and critic The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. H. L. Mencken , quoted in the table of contents for Impact Press (October-November 2000) People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police. H. L. Mencken , quoted in Jim Versluys, "The Right-Wing Case Against Religionism" (May, 2001) The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. H. L. Mencken , in American Mercury (March, 1930) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken Minority Report (1956), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. H. L. Mencken

54. Untitled HL Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and http://www.angelfire.com/co/aplacetocrash/quotes/M.html

M A B C D ... Albert Einstein Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. - Hamilton Mabie We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur In war there is no substitute for victory. - General Douglas MacArthur Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983) Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacEwan It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince" It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. - Niccolo Machiavelli War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing time, which give him liesure to contrive and furnish his ability to execute military plans. - Niccolo Machiavelli Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

55. H. L. Mencken - Pensamentos De H. L. Mencken Translate this page 219. HL Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken), 1880-1956, foi uma glasnostna vida cultural dos EUA, nas primeiras décadas do século XX. http://www.releituras.com/hlmencken_pensamentos.asp

Principal Releituras Biografias © Projeto Releituras Arnaldo Nogueira Jr H. L. Mencken Menu do Autor Pensamentos de H. L. Mencken · Nunca deixe que seus inferiores lhe façam um favor. Pode custar-lhe caro. · Um homem educado é aquele que nunca bate numa mulher sem ter um motivo justo. · Imoralidade é a moralidade daqueles que se divertem mais do que nós. · As únicas pessoas realmente felizes são as mulheres casadas e os homens solteiros. · Todo homem decente se envergonha do governo sob o qual vive. · Mostre-me um puritano e eu lhe mostrarei um filho da puta. · Digam o que disserem sobre os Dez Mandamentos, devemos nos dar por felizes por eles não passarem de dez. · O principal conhecimento que se adquire lendo livros é o de que poucos livros merecem ser lidos. · Pelo menos numa coisa homens e mulheres concordam: nenhum deles confia em mulheres. · De fato, é melhor dar do que receber. Por exemplo: presentes de casamento.

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57. H. L. Mencken On Religion (in MARION) HL Mencken on religion. Title HL Mencken on religion / edited byST Joshi. Author Mencken, HL (Henry Louis), 18801956. Joshi, ST http://library.tnstate.edu/MARION/ACI-8551

H. L. Mencken on religion Title: H. L. Mencken on religion / edited by S.T. Joshi. Author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Joshi, S. T., 1958- Published: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2002. Subject: Religion Controversial literature. Christianity Controversial literature. Other titles: On religion Material: 330 p. ; 24 cm. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. LC Card no: ISBN: 1573929824 (alk. paper) System ID no: ACI-8551 Holdings: Shelf - TSU CALL NUMBER: BL2775.3 .M46 2002 BOOK Available Please send comments, suggestions, or bug reports to webmaster

58. Excerpt: Sahara Of The Bozart By H.L. Mencken All rights reserved. Excerpt from The Sahara of the Bozart by HL Mencken (18801956).Originally printed in the New York Evening Mail, November 13, 1917. http://www.fellowshipofreason.com/bozart/2002/sahara_excerpt.htm

Excerpt from "The Sahara of the Bozart" by H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) Originally printed in the New York Evening Mail , November 13, 1917 Thanks to Oleg Panczenko of the Mencken Society T-Shirts!

59. Quotes - Democracy.Ru right. HL Mencken (18801956). The greatest task of democracy, its ritualand feast - is choice. HG Wells. HL Mencken (1880-1956). Democracy http://democracy.ru/english/quotes.php

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass CONTENTS: Home Library History Projects ... Russian LINKS: 02.04.2003, Wednesday. Moscow time: 03:00 Quotes The official's heart must stand at attention before his mind. A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation. A. d. Benoist Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles. Abbie Hoffman Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

60. Quotes - Alphabetical List M. Mencken, HL (18801956) Milne, AA (1882-1956) Montaigne, Michel de (1533-92) More,Thomas (1478-1535) Morley, Christopher (1890-1957). N. O. Ovid (BC 43-18 AD). http://home.worldonline.dk/borkfelt/eng/quotes/alphlist.html

Quotes - Alphabetical list A B C D ... P - Q - R S T - U - V W - XY - Z A Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Aristophanes (B.C. 448?-385?) B Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Brophy, Brigid Antonia (1929-95) Browning, Robert (1812-89) Burke, Edmund (1729-92) C Clemens, Samuel (1835-1910) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) D Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821-81) E Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82) Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) F Fielding, Henry (1707-54) Fowles, John (1926- ) G Glasgow, Ellen (1873-1945) Gompertz, Lewis (1779-1861) Goudge, Elizabeth (1900-84) H Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Harte, Bret (1836-1902) Horace (B.C. 65-8) Hudson, William Henry (1841-1922) ... Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) I J Johnson, Samuel (1709-84) K Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) Krutch, Joseph Wood (1893-1970) L Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963) Livy (B.C. 59 -17 A.D.) M Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956) Milne, A. A. (1882-1956) Montaigne, Michel de (1533-92) More, Thomas (1478-1535) ... Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) N O Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.) P Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963) Pythagoras (6th century B.C.) R Rolland, Romain (1866-1944)

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